Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - January 2013

Earliest crocus bloom ever in my garden

Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for January 2013.

Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we had a brief warm up a few days ago and I saw four blooms in my garden that I've never seen in mid-January.

Since then, the temperatures have turned more seasonal, colder, and those blooms are still there but are surely shivering,